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Ch. 20: The Mines Besieged

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THE MINES BESIEGED
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ground to the floors. The trays were filled with tailings, banked up on the outside with the same material, and coped with sand bags. Large shelters were made within the forts for the protec-
tion of the garrisons. As tents were not to be obtained, spacious houses with roofs of corrugated iron and sides of canvas were constructed as sleeping and eating rooms, and for protection
against the tropical sun and violent thunderstorms. When the supply of corrugated iron gave out in town, for even the enor­mous stock of De Beers did not prove equal to the demand, the
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